Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

At the age of three, André Zacharie Raimbourg and his family moved to a town in the region of Normandy called Bourville. He finished school at the age of 15 and began to work as a baker. He was already playing harmonica, mandoline and cornet when he engaged himself in a village band. In the beginning of 1940 while in the army making music-hall show for the troops, he changed his name into Andrel like his idol Fernandel from whom he was singing the songs. He began to write his own songs, making a name by himself, and so in 1942 took a new name, further from "Fernandel": Bourvil(le). He was recognized as a stand-up comic, dressed as a farmer grown too fast for the shirt he wears, hair coming down on his forehead, a simple minded but crafty naive. At the end of the war the radio extended his fame. His first parts on the screen were based only on this character. It's only in 1956 with The Crossing of Paris (1956) of Claude Autant-Lara that he really began to give his real potential as an actor on the screen. His greatest popular successes will come under the direction of Gérard Oury.

July-August 2017- Subject of an exhibition for the centenary of his birth in Fontaine-le-Dun, Normandy, the regional town where he played the cornet in the municipal band. The hall where the exhibition took place bears his real name.

He was to play in the movie <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0067108/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Delusions of Grandeur (1971)</a> directed by
<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0653620/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Gérard Oury</a> but he died a few months before the beginning of the
shooting. He was replaced by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0598971/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Yves Montand</a>.

In 1952, he wrote in collaboration with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0888602/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Maurice Vandair</a> the lyrics of the French song &quot;En Nourrice&quot; with the music of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0079339/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Henri Betti</a>.

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